The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-12-30


Woodstown in 1726, by David Davis and
others.
The honso occupied by William II. Reed
was built by .Iackanias Wood, an early
settler, after whom Woodstown derived its
name.
The Friends meeting house was built in
1885.
OF the four hundred and thirty light
men who voted in this township in the fall
of 1876, over two hundred of them have
since died.
The Friends burying ground was open
ed in 1914. The first burial there was
that Of Hannah l'imm young lady of
nineteen years. on January Goth, 1915. In
1875 the society decided to sell burial lots.
The first Methodist church built in this
place stood in the cemetery and was erect
ed in 1886. The present ediiice was con-
structed in 1867.
Elias Brown was the first one buried iii
the NJ. +. cemetery, at which time Abner
LEROY was sexton. Hannah Waters was
the first person inferred IN the Baptist GEM
etery, October 10, 1917
October 7, 1S74-lsicard Turner, Esq,
died very suddenly while sitting in his
chair.
November 10, 1s74.-IIenry Austln's
barns burned.
The Salem County Temperance Alliance
was organized at Sharptown in 1873.
Frederick Douglass delivered lecture in
Hunts Hall February 3 1876.
In the afternoon of July 81, 1895, Lucia
Filler, while crossing the railroad bridge
over the mill pond, fell into the water and
was drowned.
August Is, 1S67-Mill dams, bridges
and other property destroyed by freshet
A dwelling at Clark s mill was swept away.
September 7, 1S67.-Two barns burned
on John Holmes farm below Woodstown.
October %, 1S7S.-A cyclone swept over
this region, unroofng buildings and doing
considerable oUher damage. John Hope,
residing near Sharptown, was struck by a
falling chimney and killed.
June s, 1SGS.-First appearance OF the
seventeen year locusts.
A heavy freshet on August 4tb, 1868,
destroyed property in the counties OF Sa-
lem and Gloucester to the amount of $500,
900. A dwelling was washed away at
Richmans Mills. Mounce & Coles csti-
mated their loss at $1,000.
April 81, 1SG9.-T. Dewitt Talmage
lectnred al the Presbyterian Church.
Hunts old hardware store, corner of
MUM anu ANhitii SLittin, was phlitNt M
gust %, 1869.
September %, 1S1i.-Frst exhibition of
the West Jersey Agricultural and llorticul-
tural Association.
January 30, 1S7S.-A store and dwelling
at Richmantown, belonging to Charles Mil
Ter, were burned
March "a, 1S7S--in the absence of the
family, Elmer Ogden house at Hickman S
Mills took fire and Was burned Ia the
ground.
July IS, 1S7S.-Charles llarker was IA
tally injured while threshing ON The farm
of Benjamin Bishop.
August 2S, 1SG9.-The remains of mas
tadon discovered on the farm Of Joseph
Hackett in Warrington.
Ella Watson murdered near Yorktown
on the night of the 18th of August, 1881.
Howard Sullivan, her murderer, was ex-
ecutea for the crime December :. the same
year.
George Watson crossed the mill pond on
the ice on the 24th of March, 1885.
The Opera House was built in 1885, and
the first entertainment given on December
gath of the same year.
Harrison Snellbaker's residence was
burned October 10, 1884.
John Nanneman, who kept the old
Washington hotel was trampled to
death by a horse in its stable in the month
of January, 1905.
November 90, 1SS5.-Aaron Il. Wad-
dington, aged thirty three years, while rid
ing with John Woolman towards evening,
was thrown out of the wagon as they turn
ed into the hotel yard and was so badly in-
iured that he died two days afterward,
The Swedcsboro and Woodstown turn.
pike was built in 1917.
The Mullca Mill aud Woodstown turn
pike was completed in 1852. Joseph Par
ker took the first toll and had charge OF
the toll gate at Eldridge's Hin ten years.
lie was out seventeen years and then re-
called to tie gate he now keeps.
Isaac V. Dickinson, a prominent citizen
of this community. after Il long illness died
September 2S, 1872.
January 1G 1Si3.-Barn burned ON Main
street belonging TO John Hunt.
August |, 1S13.-Four horses and two
COWS killed by lightning.
December "a, 1878. Frank Armstrong S
cabinet shop, Mark Ayares' wheelwright
and blacksmith shop were destroyed by
fire, and n dwelling torn down to stay the
progress of the flames.
On Sunday, November %, 1881, Rev. f.
Dallas Stager. pastor of the Baptist church.
died in the pulpit while preaching his
morning sermon.
The bell at tho Baptist church was pal
in position during some repairs done II